Posted on 01/01/2021 4:24:27 AM PST by Kaslin
The Poynter Institute is a Florida-based journalism organization that runs PolitiFact. On Poynter.org, a daily media report runs by Tom Jones, who sounds like Brian Stelter's identically thinking twin. Poynter says it supports "responsible news and fact-based information," but its incessant party line of liberal-media cheerleading and conservative-media loathing really came through when Jones made a list of the "best and worst of news media in 2020."
Best national news: "ABC's David Muir, with his steady presence behind the desk, is leading what has become the best network evening newscast." But he loves CBS and NBC, too! "All, however, are good, and that includes the 'PBS NewsHour' with outstanding anchor Judy Woodruff," he said.
Best Sunday-morning interview program: "Meet the Press." Chuck Todd "isn't beloved by all viewers, and often is beat up in the Twitter world, but I will never understand that," he said. "His interview skills ... are as good as anyone in the business."
Most controversial op-ed: Sen. Tom Cotton's New York Times piece. That's probably true, but Jones said that "Cotton advocated sending in the military to break up those protesting police brutality and racism." That's misleading. Cotton advocated sending in the military to stop rioting He wrote, "A majority who seek to protest peacefully shouldn't be confused with bands of miscreants."
Dumbest editorial: The New York Times, for endorsing both Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Sen. Elizabeth Warren for president. "Seriously? The whole point of an endorsement is to help voters by endorsing one," he said. This crew was his only liberal target.
Biggest breakout star: Abby Phillip on CNN, for her "measured, yet provocative voice whenever CNN turns to her for commentary." He added, "Put it this way: If I'm flipping by CNN and she's talking, I stop and listen."
Worst excuse for news organizations: the "irresponsible, reckless and damaging programming that you see on One America News Network and Newsmax," especially OANN's eager transmission of the unsupported claim that President Donald Trump won the presidential election "in a landslide."
Best show about the media: Brian Stelter's "Reliable Sources."
Best book about the media: Stelter's anti-Fox News screed "Hoax." (Twins!)
Most dangerous network: "Fox News people won't like to hear this and they refuse to believe it, but no news organization does more harm than America's most-watched cable news network," he said.
Best debate moderator: Kristen Welker of NBC News. She "was in full command" of the third presidential debate.
Best changing of the guard: "outstanding" Joy Reid, who took over for Chris Matthews on MSNBC.
The biggest hurdle to a free press in the U.S.: President Donald Trump and White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany. "With her lies and childish attacks, she is in the running for worst White House press secretary ever," he said.
Hardest workers: "Did anyone work harder in journalism this year than Poynter's PolitiFact and International Fact-Checking Network, CNN's Daniel Dale, The Washington Post's Glenn Kessler, The Associated Press' Karen Mahabir and anyone else who fact-checks for a living?" he asks.
Most versatile: Savannah Guthrie for her "solid work" on the "Today" show and her "take-no-guff town hall with President Trump. Her work grilling the president and keeping him on point was excellent."
Things he really liked in the media this year: late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers. "Roasting politicians and commenting on politics have been late-night staples forever, but the commentary of Colbert and Meyers this year was hilarious and biting," he said.
Things he really hated this year: "Pretty much everything said on Fox News' 'The Five,' especially if it was coming out of Greg Gutfeld's mouth."
Oh, and Jones also hates Rick Santorum on CNN. Because all the liberals don't want conservatives to, as liberal blog Crooks and Liars says, "muddy up their political panels" on CNN.
Liberals good, conservatives bad: That's the Poynter Institute for you.
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However it does give some notional gravitas and false credence to the professional bloviators "behind the desk." They are the "objective journalists" supporting "fact-based reporting."
Ahem.
One thing about "fact based reporting" is that it depends solely upon the facts which are selected.
There's bias in all reporting. Wake up Poynter. Even you expose your bias in the very act of denying it.
he/she who pays the piper...
Poynter: Largest funders of Poynter
Here is an alphabetical list of our funders, including all foundations, corporations, partners and individuals that gave the Poynter Institute more than $50,000 for 2019 or 2020. This list was last updated in December 2020...
Funders
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Charles Koch Foundation
Democracy Fund
Environmental Defense Fund
Facebook
Foundation to Promote Open Society (Parent Organization: Soros Network Open Society Network)
Google News Initiative
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Lumina Foundation
MacArthur Foundation
McClatchy Foundation
Miami Foundation
National Endowment for Democracy (Funded primarily by an annual allocation from the U.S. Congress)
Newmark Philanthropies
Newton & Rochelle Becker Charitable Trust
Omidyar Network | Luminate
Open Society Foundations
Peter & Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation
Rita Allen Foundation
Robert R. McCormick Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Tides Foundation (Google.org)
Largest custom training partners in 2019 or 2020
American Society of Business Publication Editors
Charles Koch Institute
ESPN
Facebook
Huffington Post
Marketplace
MRC Media
Middle East Broadcasting Networks
National Public Radio
Newsweek
New York Times
Pinellas County School District
Southern Newspapers Publishers Association
The Washington Post
TikTok (owned by Chinese company ByteDance)
USA Today Network
Vice
Voice of America – Broadcasting Board of Governors (independent agency of the United States government)
https://www.poynter.org/major-funders/
time to bury the entire FakeNewsMSM.
This list is embarrassing.
Or should be.
It helps that all these so called journalists are related in marriage and family to rat politicians
Watcha spek from the likes of - The St.Pete Slimes genre ?
“Best national news: “ABC’s David Muir, with his steady presence behind the desk, is leading what has become the best network evening newscast”
More like “Best Propaganda”. Everything is Trumps fault. Blacks good, whites bad. Will be interesting to see how far backwards they bend to cover for slow joe and his sidekick.
Speaking of...what will it take to defund PBS of tax dollars? It seems to be a lost cause-bad enough that they are unapologetic leftist propaganda, it’s adding insult to injury that those on the right are forced to fund the propaganda.
All the way, no doubt about it.
IMHO The Poynter Institute is a hive of scum and villainy.
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